When using a particular vocabulary, there's currently no mechanism to prevent the same values from appearing over and over through random chance. While this makes sense technically, it produces clumsy output.
So, a new feature will be added, --cooldown [integer], in which a value of '0' indicates no cooldown, and any positive integer represents the number of times any given vocab must be used before it is allowed to repeat a value already randomly chosen.
For example, suppose a vocab named any_letter is in use, e.g. <any_letter>.
Suppose it consists of:
a
b
c
d
e
f
Without a cooldown, if <any_letter> were used several times in a row, output could be:
a b a a b a
Suppose a cooldown of 5 is used instead. Then the output could be:
b d e f c a b
Notice that b does not repeat until 5 other choices have been made.
If a cooldown value exceeds the number of available choices, Loomwords will make a best effort to respect it but will always produce a value, even if it must repeat early.
When using a particular vocabulary, there's currently no mechanism to prevent the same values from appearing over and over through random chance. While this makes sense technically, it produces clumsy output.
So, a new feature will be added,
--cooldown [integer], in which a value of '0' indicates no cooldown, and any positive integer represents the number of times any given vocab must be used before it is allowed to repeat a value already randomly chosen.For example, suppose a vocab named
any_letteris in use, e.g.<any_letter>.Suppose it consists of:
Without a cooldown, if
<any_letter>were used several times in a row, output could be:a b a a b aSuppose a cooldown of
5is used instead. Then the output could be:b d e f c a bNotice that
bdoes not repeat until 5 other choices have been made.If a cooldown value exceeds the number of available choices, Loomwords will make a best effort to respect it but will always produce a value, even if it must repeat early.